Language Marks

You will receive a mark for each strand of the Language curriculum taught in a term.  However, there are many factors that are taken into consideration when determining this mark. 

Similar to Mathematics and Science, I will look for evidence of learning in the following four categories to determine your mark in each of the strands:

Knowledge and Understanding

• know the content (e.g., forms of text; strategies associated with reading, writing, speaking, and listening; elements of style; terminology; conventions)
• understand the content (e.g., concepts; ideas; opinions; relationships among facts, ideas, concepts, themes)

Thinking

• use planning skills (e.g., generating ideas, gathering information, focusing research, organizing information)
• use processing skills (e.g., making inferences, interpreting, analysing, detecting bias, synthesizing, evaluating, forming conclusions)
• use critical/creative thinking processes (e.g., reading process, writing process, oral discourse, research, critical/creative analysis, critical literacy, metacognition, invention)

Communication

• express and organize ideas and information (e.g., clear expression, logical organization)  
• communicate for different audiences and purposes (e.g., use of appropriate style, voice, point of view, tone) 
• use conventions (e.g., grammar, spelling, punctuation, usage), vocabulary, and terminology 

Application

• apply the knowledge and skills (e.g., concepts, strategies, processes) in familiar contexts (situations)
• transfer the knowledge and skills (e.g., concepts, strategies, processes) to new contexts (situations)
• make connections within and between various contexts (e.g., between the text and personal knowledge or experience, other texts, and the world outside the school; between disciplines)